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Solifidian: 28 Jan 2011 | 04:22 am
One who supposes only faith, not works, necessary to justification
Garlickeater: 14 Jan 2011 | 05:17 am
A mean fellow.
Orbity: 31 Dec 2010 | 05:07 am
Loss, or want of parents or children.
Amort: 27 Dec 2010 | 05:52 am
In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless. "How many fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?" -Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew.
Deglutition: 24 Dec 2010 | 09:53 am
The act or power of swallowing
Fleer: 18 Dec 2010 | 05:51 am
(1) To mock; to gibe; to jest with insolence and contempt. "Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe? -Swift (2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility. "How popular and cour...
Pudder: 12 Dec 2010 | 03:50 am
A tumult; a turbulent and irregular bustle.
Latitant 9 Dec 2010 | 05:09 am
Delitescent; concealed; lying hid. This is evident in snakes and lizards, lattitant many months of the year, which containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition. - ...
Gride: 4 Dec 2010 | 05:11 am
To cut; to make way by cutting. A word elegant but no longer in use. So sore The griding sword, with discontinuous wound, Pass'd through him! -Milton's Paradise Lost, b. vi.
Ruth: 1 Dec 2010 | 03:50 am
Mercy; pity; tenderness; sorrow for the misery of another. All ruth, compassion, mercy he forgot. -Faifax
